The Politics of Vulnerability: Nuclear Peril and the Global Imagination

This chapter proposes a critical discourse—the ‘politics of vulnerability’—through which to read Cold War nuclear literature. It argues that the implication of many nuclear texts from the period was to challenge the idea of the nation-state, reconfiguring

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The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature

Andrew Hammond Editor

The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature

Editor Andrew Hammond School of Humanities University of Brighton Brighton, UK

ISBN 978-3-030-38972-7    ISBN 978-3-030-38973-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38973-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Alex-VN / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Acknowledgements

Thanks go out to all those—too numerous to list—who assisted with the planning and development of the volume. I’m grateful for the input of Jack Heeney, Rebecca Hinsley and Camille Davies at Palgrave, and especially for the support of Ben Doyle, who commissioned the book and without whom it wouldn’t exist. As always with collections of essays, particular thanks go out to the contributors who, despite often impossible workloads, stuck with the project and produced such wonderful research. Brighton 2019

Andrew Hammond

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Contents

Introduction  1 Andrew Hammond Section I  Themes  21  Freedom and Fabrication: Propaganda and Novels in the Cultural Cold War 23 Catherine Turner  Print Censorship and the Cultural Cold War: Books in a Bounded World 43 Nicole Moore  ‘Our Embattled Humanity’: Global Literature in an Authoritarian Age 63 Andrew Hammond  Inter/Transnational Feminist Literature of the Cold War 83 Sonita Sarker  Reading Cold War Queer Literature Today: Recognition Beyond LGBTQ Identity Politics103 Eric Keenaghan  Beyond Containment: The Left-Wing Movement in Literature, 1945–1989123 Andrew Hammond

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